Bug#24020: rc's signal handling

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> wrote:

> Hmm, so as interim maintainer ai add it to the doc directory,
> install it in /usr/doc/rc and forward it upstream.

"ai add"?

Anyways, it's a linux-only fix, and the upstream maintainer hasn't done
anything with the source for years.

> > [But I seem to recall that someone else took over the package.  If
> > they want to use another approach, that's fine with me.  I only
> > wrote that script because I thought it might solve a problem for 
> > the maintainer.]
> 
> Hmm, not that I know of.  Currently the package is pretty much
> orphaned.  I have a fixed version in my queue and will upload
> it - including a really orphaning - if you don't want to take
> over the pkg or want to work on it but want me to upload the
> fix.

I've also taken over the "es" package, which also had problems in signal
handling.  I wanted to understand the es package before tackling the rc
package [there's more issues with rc].

Unfortunately, I'm stalled on "es" because of a bug in "strace" which
prevents me from properly examining the problem.  I've a pending important
bug report against strace [with a simple bit of example code which allows
the bug to be reproduced].

My next step, if I wanted to immediately pursue this, would be to fix
the bug in strace myself -- but I'm busy enough that I'm hoping someone
else will do that for me.

-- 
Raul